{"id":1195581,"date":"2016-11-21T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/timezone-settings-for-ical-feed-with-zulu-time-set-for-events\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:14:38","slug":"timezone-settings-for-ical-feed-with-zulu-time-set-for-events","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/timezone-settings-for-ical-feed-with-zulu-time-set-for-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Timezone settings for ical feed with &#039;Zulu&#039; time set for events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I just purchased a license for the aggregator plugin. The ical imports work great, events update as expected. That&#8217;s all fine. <\/p>\n<p>However there is an issue with the timezone settings for some ical feeds. We have an ical feed (from a third party system which is not changeable) which sets the event timezone in Zulu time, which is GMT+0. <\/p>\n<p>However the local timezone setting for the website is GMT +11 (Sydney). Imported events all show GMT +0 time, not the local time. <\/p>\n<p>I have tried setting the event &#8216;timezone&#8217; settings to import using the local timezone, as well as the site timezone. This makes no difference to the timezone for imported events, which is ALWAYS GMT+0<\/p>\n<p>I have also tried both these settings with the local timezone set to GMT+0, GMT+11 and &#8216;SYDNEY&#8217;. None of the settings make any difference, the events all show up with the GMT+0 time zone. <\/p>\n<p>For reference the time setting for an event in Zulu time shows up as:<br \/>\nDTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T213000Z<\/p>\n<p>The time setting for an event is 1st December 2016 at 9:30pm. It should be 2nd December 2016 at 8:30am.<\/p>\n<p>Would another import setting workaround this? All imports were done as imports with either the &#8216;ical&#8217; format or the &#8216;google calendar&#8217; format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1195581","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Timezone settings for ical feed with &#039;Zulu&#039; time set for events -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/timezone-settings-for-ical-feed-with-zulu-time-set-for-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Timezone settings for ical feed with &#039;Zulu&#039; time set for events -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"hi there, I just purchased a license for the aggregator plugin. 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